
Writing
Julio Alejandro
Born — Died
1906-02-27 — 1995-09-22
Place of birth
Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Known for
Writing
Credits
42 titles
Known for
7.7Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Viridiana
1962
7.2As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Tristana
1970
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
7.6Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Simon of the Desert
1965
4.3A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Cry of the Bewitched
1957
A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.
Faith
1974
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.7Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
Viridiana
1962
7.2As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Tristana
1970
7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Nazarín
1959
7.6Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Simon of the Desert
1965
4.3A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Cry of the Bewitched
1957
A devoted woman sets out on a long pilgrimage, pleading for a miracle to save her husband. Along the road, her faith is tested by hardship, temptation, and the people she meets.
Faith
1974
An elderly wealthy woman’s public charity in a forgotten town sparks tension and rivalry among neighbors. A working-class wife is pushed into a harsh maze of institutions as the conflict spills into family life.
Charity
1974
6.6Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
Gutierritos
1959
A circus fakir performs a crucifixion act to earn enough money to secure a home for his mother. As the spectacle intensifies, the boundary between devotion, showmanship, and danger begins to blur.
Hope
1974
6.6A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
Yesenia
1971
6.3The romance between two young people intensifies the bitter feud between their rival families, which has been going on for three generations.
Una leyenda de amor
1982
7.0Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Happy Year, My Love
1957
4.4No synopsis available yet.
Si volvieras a mi
1954
6.0Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
Miracles Weaver
1962
5.6A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
The New Invisible Man
1958
6.0A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
El hombre del puente
1976
8.0A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
María Isabel
1967
6.4Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
La ciudad de los niños
1957
5.7When three poor young women fail in their attempts to break into films and night clubs in Mexico City, they separate from their boyfriends, form a trio and travel the country singing, dancing and bribing older men, but they fall into a trap when they invest their money in an unreliable business.
Las tres alegres comadres
1952
6.8This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Después de la tormenta
1955
4.61913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Ash Wednesday
1958
6.4A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
The Sin of a Mother
1960
5.5A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
6.2Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Heaven and Earth
1962
6.6Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
La estrella vacía
1960
In 1809, a woman participates in the conspiracy for the independence of Mexico and her husband blames her for infidelity.
La Güera Rodríguez
1978
6.2A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Fruto prohibido
1953
6.8One mental patient usurps the identity of another and starts a new life, passing himself off as a long-lost relative of a rich family.
When the Fog Lifts
1952
6.3The story of a magnate who is dedicated to doing shady business. This man is involved in a series of problems when his wife, his lover and his secretary find out about the relationship he has with each one.
El ídolo
1971
5.3A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
El vendedor de muñecas
1955
6.8Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman
1955
6.3The love of two young people is prevented by the envy and resentment of a greedy man and his evil son.
El hijo de Ángela María
1974
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El caso de una adolescente
1958
7.6The story of a femme fatale whose adventures are narrated in flashbacks by the ghosts of her former lovers.
La dulce enemiga
1957
6.7Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Un divorcio
1953
4.2A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
La Diana Cazadora
1957
6.7On the border between Mexico and the United States, there is a man willing to do anything. Handsome and adventurous, he prepares to live a new life that will make him a legend.
The Mexican
1977
6.5Rodrigo is a seminarist that soon will be a priest, but a demon woman seduce him. He doesn't know what path choose.
La leyenda de Rodrígo
1981
6.3Loosely-plotted melodrama about five "hostesses" and the owners of a waterfront nightclub.
Mujeres sin mañana
1951
6.7Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Azahares rojos
1961


